November 2008

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK[7] (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools and a number of additional features including a web plugin, Web Start support and support for additional architectures via Zero/Shark or the CACAO VM.
More information on IcedTea can be found at http://icedtea.classpath.org

What’s New?
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IcedTea is based on the hard work of a lot of people that contributed to
IcedTea6 and OpenJDK. The following noteworthy changes were added in
this release:

- Updated to b39 build.
- Support for external projects (closures, caciocavallo, cvmi, bsd, nio2).
Note that these are based on Mercurial repositories so may require local
changes for a working build due to noticeable differences between the
repository and the reference OpenJDK b39 build. At the time of release,
NIO2 was buildable out of the box.
- Fixed to use new sound service, Gervill.
- Many Netx fixes and now built by default.
- LiveConnect support replaces gcjwebplugin.
- Implemented JavaScript->Java security.
- PulseAudio integrated (–enable-pulse-java)
- VisualVM tool integrated (–enable-visualvm).
- Added out-of-the-box CACAO support (–with-cacao).
- Added the experimental Shark JIT for Zero.
- Cleaned up crypto support, all algorithms and key sizes are fully
supported now without any (regional) restrictions. No more need for
separate crypto policy jars.
- Integration of Mozilla Rhino javascript support for javax.script.
(See http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179 when
you want to enable non-system-installed versions of Rhino).
- Add support for Zero builds on alpha, arm, mips, mipsel, m68k, s390.
- Various build fixes.
- Several bug and security fixes.
- Plugin including LiveConnect support built as default.
- Various bugs fixed: renderer patch, version string updated,
chinese fonts filename fix for Fedora etc.
- More progress on Shark and Cacao.
- Several plugin bug fixes.
- Several build fixes.